Medicine

Abstract

Acute rheumatism.?Achalme described in 1891 an anaerobic organism, cultivated from the brain of a patient who died from cerebral rheumatism. Tliiroloix (Gaz. liebd. de viedParis, 3rd October 1897), in a paper read to the Society of Biology in Paris, announced that he had cultivated an organism, identical with that previously discovered by Achalme, from the venous blood of three patients suffering from acute rheumatism. The identity of the two, however, appears not to be an absolute certainty. One or two minor differences could be detected between their modes of growth and between the characters of their products. A previous paper by Tliiroloix was read in March of last year, and the paper at present alluded to refers more particularly to the third case